Liquid screed for Horndean's extended detached houses
Opening up a house is where a pumped floor pays off. Across the Hazleton estate and the 1960s and 1970s housing around it, detached homes are gaining extensions, and when the new room joins the old kitchen to make one space, the floor runs wall to wall with nothing breaking it up. Liquid screed spreads over that whole area, finds its level and easily meets SR1 or SR2, meaning a 2m straightedge shows a gap of no more than 3mm or 5mm.
It barely shrinks, so the joint lines a traditional sand and cement floor would need mostly disappear. That counts when big tiles or a single run of LVT will cross from the old kitchen into the new room.
It is also thinner. Laid floating over insulation in a house, a pumped floor can go down at roughly 35mm; the sand and cement equivalent is around 65mm. Where the extension floor has to meet the existing one at the doorway, those spare millimetres can be given to thicker insulation.
Pumped screeds split into a gypsum-type, calcium sulphate binder and a cement binder. Each flows and finds its own level, but they dry differently, need different surface preparation and suit different rooms. The calcium sulphate side is covered on our anhydrite flow screed page for Horndean, and our guide comparing poured and hand-laid screeds sets the two methods side by side.
Getting the pump to rooms in Horndean and Lovedean
Only the hose comes inside. The mixer and pump sit outdoors and the screed travels through the nearest door to the room being poured. A detached house with a drive gives the pump a place to stand without blocking the street. If the road is the only option, or the room is at the back with a tight side passage, mention it with your enquiry and we will work out the hose route in advance.
Upstairs is no harder. Purpose-built flats make up just 11% of Horndean's homes, but for any flat or first floor room the hose simply goes up the stairs, far easier than hauling sand and cement up in buckets.
A good pour depends on what happens first. Edge strip lines every wall, a membrane goes over the insulation with taped joints, and each doorway is dammed off. We go round all of it before pumping starts, and if the builder has not provided the build-up, our insulation and membrane supply can.
Don't mistake footfall for dryness, though. Most floor finishes have to wait until a test shows moisture under the manufacturer's limit, and drying takes roughly one day for each millimetre up to 40mm, slowing after that. Why a deep Horndean floor keeps you waiting longer is set out in how long a screed takes to dry.
Liquid Screed prices in Horndean
Liquid screed: £24 to £31 per m² supplied and laid (MyJobQuote, August 2026), so £960 to £1,240 for 40 m². MyJobQuote does not say whether these figures include VAT. See our floor screeding cost guide or screed calculator.
Who lays your liquid screed in Horndean
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Liquid Screed from Slough to Horndean
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 45.9 miles from Horndean, which lies to the south-south-west. Postcodes here include PO8, and Havant (3.7 miles), Emsworth (5.2 miles), Petersfield (7.3 miles) and Fareham (8.3 miles) are close by.
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